Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1887-04-29
FARM NOTES.

Soap-suds is splendid fertilizer for
Towering plants.
Plants do better when not watered of
ten, but copiously.
Potash fertilizers have decidedly i'm
proved desirable qualities OF fruits wher-
ever applied.
1t is claimed sorrel can be eradicated
from fields by the generous application
of unleached wood ashes.
Good onion seed, planted early and
well in good rich soil, we'll MANFRED, is
alost certain to produce large yield if
properly cultivated.
In Flanders the urine of cattle is saved
separately from the solid e1crement, and
Is sold to gardeners at the rate of SO per
COW for year.
In pruning very young pear trees en-
courage growth of wood in proper direc-
tions, instead Of fruit production at the
expense of development.
The sulky or riding rlow, on which the
plowman is carried around the field while
the work is done, revolutionizes all the
old ideas about blowing.
The droppings from sheep are highly
concentrated and should be carefully saw
ed, the best mode of 80 doing being to
mix them with the compost heap.
Branches that we're broken during the
winter should be cut near to the trunk, a
smooth cut made, and covered with graft
Ing wax or thick paint.
Lucerne is valuable leguminous plant,
that thrives in all good soil of a free cal
careous nature. On wet land it produces
three or four abundant cuttings.
With good homemade hotbed, the
construction of which any woman can at
least superintend. and proper seeds, the
battle for floral display is half won.
A Western inventor claims that prairie
grass ground into pulp with corn stalks
and pressed into blocks makes an excel
lent substitute for wood and coal.
Eggs intended for Matching should not
be over two weeks old. If much older it
takes longer to. hatch them, and the
chicks are, es general thing, not so
thrifty.
jest here we will say to those who COM
plain of receiving no eggs, to change the
food by giving goodly supply of meat
once day. A pound will supply twelve
| fowls. and if they are kept warm they
will nearly always lay under meat diet.
Ventilate the building where your poul-
try is kept daily, no matter how cold the
day may be. Let the foul air out and the
| fresh air in among the birds. Thus only
can you keep them healthy in contine-
| ment.
Alfalfa has been raised in New Jersey
with success. Last year G. w. Thorn p
son, in Stelton, near New Brunswick, cut
! 36,320 pounds of the grass in two cuttings
June and September-from 20 pounds
of seed. The drouth interfered with the
third crop.
Milk may be canned just as you would
can fruit. Bring your milk to the boil
ing point and fill your jars to the brim
with it; then shut alright. This will
keep any length CT time, and be just as
good when opened as when put up.
| MICHIGAN has passed law against the
adulteration of honey. Iowa has prohi-
bited dealing in diseased hogs. Mary
land, Michigan and Kentucky have pro-
Vided for the inspection of fertilizers and
| regulate their sale. South Carolina has
passed a severe special law Furnishing the
stealing of vegetables. Georgia will re
ward all who discover phosphate within
her borders.
! The easiest and surest way to destroy
| Canada thistles is to give an absolute
summer falloW, by which no green thing
is allowed to appear above the surface.
Shallow blowing once in two weeks during
one seasons growth will do this. If there
be rocks, stumps, ETC., all these places
must be hoed thoroughly at each blowing.
If the remaining weak roots should send
up tops the next season thorough cult
Walton in corn will kill out those remain
ing. The prevention of any green plant
FROM making leaves for one whole season
| will totally eradicate it.